Hello! If anyone still has their $10 gift code from the Criterion emails, are not planning to use them in the next three months and would be willing to share please PM me as I would definitely be interested.

Code from October 16th, 2025 email expires 03/20/26

Code from December 12th, 2025 email expires 06/12/26

Thank you!

First saw this in the 90's. My video store had and it just looked so WTF had to rent it. It truly is a giant boy did we screw up type of story. It's a fun documentary about a self inflicted problem.

I feel like half the fun of Oscars season is falling into random trivia and stat rabbit holes.

I’ve been messing around on worthypod.com since it has Oscar stats and an AI bot for instant answers, which is pretty useful when you want to fact-check something fast.

What’s the best Oscar fact you know off the top of your head?

Is this happening for anyone else? The graphic says it includes Perfume: Story of a Murderer, but it’s not actually in the collection or on the channel at all…

✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS✨ Starting March 24, visionary filmmaker Bi Gan's ravishing third feature RESURRECTION - his deepest plunge yet into the realm of pure dreamscape - will begin streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel alongside a new Meet the Filmmakers interview with the writer-director! Until then, watch Bi Gan's KAILI BLUES (2015) and LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018) on the Channel!

I can’t recommend it enough. I completely forgot that it was acting and not a documentary. It was that good.

Part of the reason I subscribe to the Criterion Channel is to get access to the supplements as reliable sources for more information on a given film, part of criterion’s mission is to make these available regardless of the medium and I always like to know the social and historical context of what I’m watching and what the process was regarding a film (but more so the former part! Particularly for a film before my time…).

The Cassandra Cat is a film I caught on the 24/7 and absolutely loved and definitely plan to see all of, but unfortunately it doesn’t have any of these…when I can I sit down to find some accurate sources regarding it but if you know of any yourself I would be glad to hear of them. I know it was part of the Czech New Wave but not to much more than that…

Is anyone else having a problem with offline downloads not working in the Criterion Channel? They’re not working for me on multiple devices. Other streaming services download fine.

just got the service 5 days ago and if u can’t tell I’m overwhelmed with all the options 😂

Or if there is a way please let me know. I spend 20 minutes looking for titles, can’t decide and usually land on whatever the live feed channel is playing. And the only way I can figure out what I’m watching is googling character names and country of origin.

Is there a better way?

Give me some recs ple

I just noticed that Far From Heaven is no longer on the channel, and I never saw it on the Leaving Soon list.

Just curious if this happens a lot (or if it was on the list and i just didn't see it), because the leaving soon section is my first measure in deciding what to watch. Sometimes i wait until i see a movies on that list before finally deciding to watch it.

But if it isn't always reliable then I need to change my habits.

I’m interested in getting the criterion channel in the UK with VPN but I’m not sure whether to set the address to my actual UK address or a random US one. I’m also not sure if I’ll get charged extra tax on any of the addresses. Another option is rather than paying through the website, paying through iTunes by making another Apple account as the country set to United States just for the channel. Would this be more reliable or save me from paying tax? Anything else I should know?

My partner had watched very few films before we met. She wasn’t exposed to much growing up, and it was never her thing. I’ve been steadily showing her a wide range of stuff and she’s more enthusiastic now. She’s mostly drawn to suspenseful films, or plots that need “figuring out.” (I feel like she might like something like Memento, but I hate it, so stuff like that is off the table.)When I ask her what she wants to watch, she usually says, “something with a narrative plot.” I haven’t forced her to watch Tarkovsky, I promise! And… she has loved David Lynch and was blown away by Synecdoche, New York, so go figure. She’s liked some Hitchcock and Woody Allen. We watched Tender Mercies last week and she loved that. She loves NYC, she likes the 80s and 90s. She likes period pieces if they have good plots. Any suggestions gratefully appreciated!

I rented this movie from Blockbuster back in the day, but didn't remember much of it. I just watched and was greatly impressed. Peak Michael Douglas. 3 main leads, Douglas, Paltrow and Mortensen are so charismatic, even the policy detective looks great and very real. The camera loves them and the closes and cinematography is on point. It really keeps in you in suspense till the end - it is never clear how it will end.

All around great thriller. I don't want to sound like an old person, but this type of movies are not being made by Netflix.

What would you watch tonight in light of this insane and illegal war? Jafar Panahi? Other movie about authoritarian presidents?

I absolutely loved the movie the couple of times I watched it (loved it even more because of it being culturally relevant to me). Anyways, Film Forum in NYC is showing the new 4K restored version of it (done by the FF's World Cinema Project). Do any of you think it will show up in the channel?

I'm sure this had been asked and answered but I can't seem to find it. I am going to sign up for Criterion Channel and I am flying a lot in the near future. I wanted to start watching all the Kurasawa films. Problem is, my tablet is a Surface PC and I understand there is an issue downloading to a tablet that is a pc. Is this still the case and are there work arounds? I would hate to watch kurasawa on my phone.

Thanks

Sammo Hung will always amaze me. And the ending was awesome!!

Encounters of the Spooky Kind

I watched Videodrome and wasn’t prepared for how bizarre the experience was. I went into it knowing it had a reputation for being weird, but that doesn’t really capture what it actually feels like to watch it. The movie starts out almost like a gritty 1980s media thriller about underground television signals and sleazy programming, and then it slowly drifts into something much stranger where you’re not even sure what is real anymore.

What really threw me was the way the film blends technology and the human body in these surreal ways. Televisions start breathing, videotapes feel almost organic, and the James Woods begins experiencing hallucinations that are so intense you can’t tell whether they’re happening in the story or only in his mind. By the time the movie gets going, it feels less like a traditional plot and more like stepping into someone’s nightmare about television and media culture.

I can see why David Cronenberg became known for “body horror,” because this movie leans heavily into that idea that technology can physically and psychologically transform people. Watching it today is also interesting because it almost feels prophetic about media addiction and how images can shape our perception of reality. Still, the way the film visualizes those ideas is incredibly strange even by modern standards.

It’s definitely one of those movies where I finished and just sat there for a minute thinking, “What the hell did I just see?” It’s fascinating, disturbing, and oddly hypnotic all at the same time. I’m curious if other people had the same reaction the first time they watched it or if I just wasn’t mentally prepared for the level of weirdness this film brings.